Swinging wringer



April 1937- J. B. CASTINO 2,077,673

SWINGING WRINGER Filed Aug. 22, 1934 3 Sheets-Sheet 2 INVENTOR Joy/V 5. (45 77/1/0 BY P MAM ATTORNEY Patented Apr. 20, 1937 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE John B. Castino, River Forest, Ill.

Application August 22, 1934, Serial No. 740,914

4 Claims.

This invention relates to swinging wringers and more particularly to a wringer of the type manually oscillatable to change the direction of its rotation.

5 An object of the invention is to provide a wringer deriving power and the means of rotation from gears connected with the source of power.

A further object is to provide a wringer of the type having gears mounted on a single shaft but whose teeth are inclined oppositely to cause opposite directions of rotation of said wringer.

Other and further objects of the invention will appear as the description proceeds, reference being had tothe accompanying drawings in which:-- I

Fig. 1 is a vertical sectional view through the drive shaft and gear of the wringer embodying my invention.

Fig. 2 is a side view partly in elevation an partly in cross section.

Fig. 3 is a sectional view taken on line 33 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is a view similar to Fig. 1 showing the 25 modified construction.

Like reference characters refer to like parts in the several figures.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, reference character l represents a horizontal shaft connected to a source of power, and held in the bearing II which is supported in casing l2. The shaft I 0 has at its end l3 the miter gear I4 which engages the two horizontal miter gears l5 and IS. The gear I6 is afiixed to shaft I1 and the gear I5 is affixed to the tubular shaft l8. The pair of gears l9 and 20 are afiixed at the upper ends of shaft l1 and I8 respectively. Wringer rolls 2i and 22 have mounted thereon at one end or at the end adjacent and engaged with the gears l9 and 20, the gears 23 and 24. The wringer rolls 2| and 22 are pivotally held in an inverted U shaped frame 25 which in turn is pivotally mounted on the pintles 26 and 21 which are held fixedly in the end frames 28 and 29. These frames are connected by the spacers 29A with nuts 29B. The end frame 28 has an integral housing 30 for the gears 2| and 22. The handle member 3| is pivoted on pintles 32 and 33, and is yieldably held by the two expansion coiled springs 34. The yoke 35 underneath handle member 3| engages the pin 36 on the U shaped frame 25.

The drain board 31 pivoted at 38 is moved by a pin 39 on the frame 25 which engages in the 55 U slot 40 on the frame 4| of the drain board 31..

The guards 42 and 43 are pivoted at 44 and 45 respectively on frame 25 and have the integral gears 46 and 41 which engage each other. The coil tension spring 48 tends to hold the guards 42 and 43 in proximity to the lower roll 22; contact with said roll being prevented by the detents 49 and 50.

The modification shown in Fig. 4 of the drawings provides a single vertical shaft I! on which are fixed the two gears l9 and 20. The teeth ISA of gear H are inclined in the same direction as the teeth 20A of gear 20.

Wringer gears 23 and 24 are spiral and inclined in a like direction. It will be readily understood that the rotation direction of the wringer rolls will depend on whether or not the gear I!) or 20 is engaged therewith.

In operation, the source of power driving the shaft I0 will rotate gear l4 in engagement with miter gears l5 and I6 which accordingly will turn in opposite directions, thus imparting opposite direction of rotation of the shaft l1 and I8 causing gears 19 and 20 to turn in opposite directions. Manipulation of the handle member 3| will bring either one of gears 23 or 24 into contact with its associated gear l9 or 20 causing the connecting wringer roll to turn in conjunction with the driving gear contacted. The same operation will tilt the drain board 31 holding it in the same direction in which the handle member 3| is held.

The guard 43 as shown in Fig. 3 has a laterally extending handle portion 5| which the operator may grasp and pull outward the guards 42 and 43, whereupon the cloth may be placed over the point 52 and set guard 43 to action and the springs 48 will automatically return the guards to the position adjacent to the wringer thus causing the cloth to be drawn toward the rolls.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is:-

1. In a wringer of the class described, a power shaft, a gear thereon, a tubular shaft, a rod shaft therein, gears on the tubular shaft and the rod shaft in mesh with the power shaft gear, a pair of wringer rolls mounted to oscillate about an intermediate axis parallel thereto, gears on said rolls, and gears on said tubular shaft and said rod shaft alternately engagable with the gears on said wringer rolls by oscillation of said pair of wringer rolls as a unit.

2. In a wringer, a vertical tubular shaft connected to a source of power, a rod shaft there within connected with said source of power to rotate oppositely to the tubular shaft, gears on the heads of said shafts and a pair of wringer of said frame, and a tiltable drain board pivoted rolls pivoted to swing radially about said shafts to the bottom of said frame and connections beand also to be manually oscillatable with respect tween said drain board and said frame whereby to the vertical shafts, and gears on said wringer movement of the handle member will cause a 5 rolls adapted to mesh with either of the vertical corresponding movement of the drain board. 5 shaft gears to change the direction of rotation 4. In a device of the class described, wringer of the rolls. rolls, a pair of oppositely disposed feeding fingers,

3. In a device of the class described, driving gear means maintaining said fingers in position means, wringer rolls mounted parallel in a frame near the bite of the rolls, means for manually l0 and oscillatable about an intermediatehorizontal withdrawing said. fingers,,and,means for re- 10 axis, gear means on said respective rolls adapted turning said'fingers to feeding position. by oscillation to mesh alternately with said driving means, a handle member pivoted to the tops JOHN B. CASTING. 

